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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Preserving rare farm animals through science
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:01:29 -0800

Now, James. You know there wouldn't be an excuse for some executive to make the big $$ if folks just kept giving breeding stock to farmers who will start up a breeding program to preserve some of these breeds.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>


Doesn't give me a lot of confidence about these vets and animal experts
that they don't know that this is a very desireable trait in a small ruminant.
Many of the predators won't eat carrion. When they come up to a goat that
is completely comatose, their instincts tell them that it is already dead
and not fit to eat. Same defense mechanism built into the 'possum.

But my main misgiving about this is about its continual funding.
Maintaining cyrogentics long term is a very expensive proposition and the personnel
involved in harvesting the embryos and ongoing testing is money intensive.

So while the prospects of frozen embryos is a better prospect than nothing,
the future of these animals depends on them being bred on living and
breathing farms and farmsteads.





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